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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read if at all. Includes Lord Byron's Sonnet on Chillon & The Prisoner of Chillon.

i-xxviii, 1-319, [1], 1-627 pages. Hardcover: H 25.5cm x L 16.25cm. Original brown full calf leather binding; patches of surface abrasion and staining to boards; dulled slender gilt tooling along scuffed board edges with corners worn; spine decorated with four slightly raised bands as well as gilt lettered black title label which has shallow chipping at its right and left edges; light scuffing at spine ends. All edges marbled but strongly faded; blue endpapers with pastedowns having peeled remnants of dark brown paper. Original owner's purple ink name stamp "J.O. Banks" also on front pastedown and again at top of page vii; same owner's ink price notation and signature at front free endpaper's top right with five-line ink inscription at center "J. O. Banks | Tuskaloosa | Ala | Sep. 1847 | No." Surname ink signature "Banks" at title page's top right. Toning to several initial leaves; pervasive foxing throughout; single pencil notation "Mississippi" found at center fore-edge margin of second page 30; no other pencil notes readily apparent upon a quick perusal; some occasional creasing to leaves. B/w plates retain their tissue guards including interlying guard sheet between frontispiece portrait of Lady Byron and opposing engraved title page. Binding is firm. Else a good+ antiquarian copy. With biographical essay "The Life of Lord Byron" by Fitz-Greene Halleck on pages xv-xxviii. Born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, James Oliver Banks (1829-1904) graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama in 1847 (with this book's inscription contemporary to Banks' attendance) and 1850 respectively later followed by a medical degree from Jefferson College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Banks entered Civil War military service as a captain in September 1861 in Columbus, Mississippi with Company A, 5th Battalion, Mississippi Confederate Infantry rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1862 with the 43rd Mississippi Infantry participating in action at the Battle of Corinth and Vicksburg with final service in Alabama and Georgia. Banks was first married to Martha Jane Coleman (1833-1868) of Greene County, Alabama with whom he had five children (of which two passed in infancy) and, following her death, married Lucy Watkins Young (1841-1933) on May 11, 1870 with whom he had five children (all surviving to adulthood). Lucy Young was one of ten children of George Hampton Young who owned the architecturally renowned Waverly Plantation on the west bank of the Tombigbee River between Columbus and West Point, Mississippi. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.25 pounds (1.92 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {RAS-BindingShelf}.…

xxxix, [1], 764 pages. Hardcover: H 24.75cm x L 16.75cm. Full dark brown morocco leather; slight bowing to stained rear board; gilt stamped "Byron" at both boards' centers with their fore-edge corners scuffed; front board additionally personalized "Luke Bemis" in small gilt lettering below center; spine has five raised bands with gilt title lettering at second compartment from top and other five compartments minimally decorated with stamped leaf decoration; surface abrasion lengthwise along front joint; slender scuffing at spine ends with small indentation at head. All edges gilt. Some toning, foxing, and/or light soiling occurring to initial and rear leaves; strongest toning/foxing occurring to book's unpaged b/w plates with some carryover to their adjacent leaves but, overall, interior text pages remain quite clean; publisher's type does show mis-strikes particularly at page numbers indicating plates were a bit worn at time of printing. With dark brown endpapers, b/w frontispiece portrait titled "Ada" with well foxed tissue guard sheet plus at least three other portrait plates with tissue guards (opposite pages 513, 567, and 587), and double-column text. "Life of Lord Byron" by J.W. Lake on pages v-xxxix. Binding is firm. Still a handsome copy despite a few flaws. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.5 pounds (2 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. …